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Strategies to promote energy efficiency in buildings 0
Posted 1 month ago I developed the following graphic for a presentation to a visiting Chinese delegation. I believe it sums up our building energy efficiency strategies simply and effectively.
OUTFLANKED

‘No compromise’ faction attacks climate bill 104
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago Acolytes of climatologist James Hansen are not happy with the climate legislation coming out of Washington. And boy do they have some strange ways of showing it.
Pop Quiz 0
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago Which of the following organizations – U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Natural Resources Defense Council or the American Coal Council – posted the following paragraph?
Who liberates the liberators?

Terrorism laws are wrongly being used to round up eco-activists, says author Dean Kuipers 1
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago
“Rod Coronado is not a terrorist,” says Dean Kuipers, author of Operation Bite Back: Rod Coronado's War to Save American Wilderness. In an interview, Kuipers explains how terrorism laws are being used against environmentalists and animal-rights activists.
Smarter cities

The 15 most sustainable U.S. cities 28
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Seattle is the most sustainable big city in the nation, according to a list compiled by Smarter Cities, an NRDC project that looks at the progress American cities are making toward going green. Find out which other 14 cities made the list.
Green Acres

How smart is your city? 1
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Cities matter -- to our health, as well as to the health of the planet. How we build our cities can play a very important role in preserving and protecting the environment.
And they call the other Buffett a parrothead

Warren Buffett repeats GOP talking points on energy plan 1
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Billionaire Warren Buffett keeps saying cap and trade will hurt consumers, especially the poor. Report after report concludes he's wrong.
Climate bill puts Americans in the green (SEE MAP) 0
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Opponents of climate policy have cranked out lots of "studies" to prove the Waxman-Markey bill will crater the economy.The latest garbage was the map that suddenly popped up last week, purporting to show that the bill would rob states of large sums of cash. While that map was a good visual, it wasn't a good actual. NRDC did model the actual bill, and found that Americans in nearly every state will save on their monthly electricity bill under Waxman-Markey.
Putting the economy in the green

New studies tout the economic benefits of green jobs 0
Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Investments in clean energy -- such as those encouraged by the American Clean Energy and Security Act -- would produce several times as many jobs as the same amount of money spent on traditional fossil fuels, according to new studies released Thursday by a coalition of environmental groups and research institutes.

Lower-income Americans in particular would benefit, according to a report from the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, which was commissioned by the Natural Resources Defense Council and Green for All.

Upgrading the U.S. economy to rely less on fossil fuels would create a surge of manufacturing and construction jobs that would include renovating homes and buildings to be more energy efficient, tapping clean energy sources such as wind and solar to produce more electricity, and building better transit systems and other infrastructure improvements.
American Clean Energy and Security Act will drive clean energy investments

News flash: More jobs and lower energy costs good for low-income Americans 0
Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago
TO: U.S. Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers, Heritage Foundation and other industry groups predicting the end of life as we know if America takes action on climate change

FROM: Natural Resources Defense Council, Political Economic Research Institute/University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Green for All and the Center For American Progress

Subject: Inconvenient New Study Debunks Your Scare Tactics about the American Clean Energy and Security Act

It's time to face facts. You are just wrong when you forecast massive job losses, economic dislocation and harm to low-income Americans if the U.S. takes action on energy/green jobs issues. Contrary to what you've been suggesting, it turns out that "down is not up" and "night is not day": More green jobs resulting from tackling climate change is a good thing for America - including lower-income households.
Good Fish, Bad Fish

Is your favorite seafood unhealthy for the planet? 4
Posted 5 months ago
A new Sustainable Seafood Guide from the Natural Resources Defense Council can help me -- and you -- make better choices about what we eat. It provides seven basic guidelines to follow when shopping for seafood or ordering at a restaurant, as well as specific advice about America's five favorite types of seafood, from shrimp to tuna to fish sticks.
Constructive Critical-ism

Feds will designate critical habitat for polar bears 0
Posted 1 year, 1 month ago
EPA knuckleheads hide info on pesticide implicated in colony collapse disorder 14
Posted 1 year, 2 months ago
This Makes Us Crabby

Is your favorite beach polluted? 0
Posted 1 year, 3 months ago
All Your Base Are Belong to Us

Major League Baseball going, going, green! 9
Posted 1 year, 3 months ago
Y2.1K

Ignoring climate change will cost U.S. big bucks, says group 5
Posted 1 year, 5 months ago
The Sound of Two Paws Clapping

Green groups sue over polar bear listing 0
Posted 1 year, 5 months ago
Ranch Blessing

Greens and developer come to agreement in SoCal 9
Posted 1 year, 6 months ago
Climate Security Act could be worse than the 2007 energy bill 8
Posted 1 year, 7 months ago
Steel Yourself

Labor and enviros join up for green-jobs campaign 0
Posted 1 year, 7 months ago